Apple’s new high-tech headquarters.
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, made an unannounced visit to the June 7 City Council meeting in Cupertino, home of the computer giant, to reveal plans for a new, state-of-the-art Apple headquarters, reports the Cupertino Courier. (Video and pics)
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Wii U
For the majority of their console generation, Nintendo has been content to play its own game. Now it’s ready to take the fight to Microsoft and Sony. (video)
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The jetpack is expected to be commercially available in the next 18 months.
New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin aims to have his “jetski for the skies” on the market within 18 months. He has created a jetpack suitable for everyday use by ordinary people with no specialist pilot training. (video)
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Four-year-old Aelita Andre welcomed art lovers to the opening of her first solo art exhibit called The Prodigy of Color at the Agora Gallery in Manhattan on Saturday.
Rats are the latest pet craze in New York City.
In New York City it’s good to be a rat, where rats are the latest hot trend in pets. New Yorkers even held a rat fashion show this past weekend. The pet rats wore couture gowns and tuxes many humans would love to wear – in their sizes, of course. (pics and video)
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Immersive Cocoon
Imagine a digital experience that is intuitive and holistic, where your interface is not reduced to a mouse click and two-dimensional analog of a writing desk. A surround display dome complemented by the sophisticated motion-sensing software that inspired the technology depicted in the film ‘Minority Report’. With natural, intuitive movements, your entire body becomes the interface. (Video and Pics)
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A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy has come to the conclusion that the global war on drugs has failed. The Global Commission, which includes a group of politicians and former world leaders, says the current anti-drug policy has been fueling organized crime, costing taxpayers millions of dollars and causing thousands of deaths.
Continue reading… “Global War on Drugs Has Failed: Report”
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Short video clip on “Systems Thinking”
recorded at the Plan Fort Collins event on March 3, 2010
Futurist Thomas Frey: A recent article in iLibrarian explained it this way.
Online education seems set on its course to overtake traditional colleges within the next few decades, especially as our society becomes ever more dependent on the internet to get our work done. Thomas Frey, an expert on online education, compares our growing reliance on the education system to the reliance of ancient Romans on their numeric system. He indicates that much like the Romans, we have become increasingly reliant on our education system which is meant to pass on information from one generation to the next, hesitant to any change that may occur (explaining the rough transition to online education).
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Treebot
Treebot is a robot that was designed to climb trees. The robot was designed by a team at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the express purpose of shimmying up trees autonomously, figuring out the best route up a trunk using built-in touch sensors. (video)
Futurist Thomas Frey: On Tuesday evening we had a packed audience at the DaVinci Institute to discuss the future of micro farming. Admittedly, we weren’t terribly well organized and the range of topics we touched on were far more than most of us could reasonably consider in a single setting. But for those who took part in the discussion groups, some amazing ideas came to light.
Continue reading… “Inventing the Rocking Chair Tree”
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YouTube has come a long way from its first video showing founder Jawed Karim at the zoo.
This month, YouTube is celebrating its sixth birthday and has released some statistics in honor of the event that cement what we already know — people are really into online video.
Continue reading… “YouTube Users Upload 48 Hours of Video Every Minute”
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The Snowglobe Project was presented at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Vancouver. The Snowglobe Project gives a 360 degree view of an object.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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